The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
According to memorandum from the business manager of television station, the late-night program puts its major focus on the national news and minor focus on whether. Author believed this caused a real problem for that television station based on people do not show any attention to the programs and some of the advertisers are canceling their contracts. There is three ways to investigate this problem.
First of all, there is no evidence to support that the reason that people do not show any inclination toward programs of this television station is based on the tv stations do not cover whether news as much as national news. For example it could be based on the low quality of that late-night show or it could be based on the fact that the show is not as good as before.
Secondly, author believed that some of the advertisers canceled their contract because of the fact that television station does not invest enough time to cover weather news. But It could be because of the fact that they are having financial problem and that is the only reason and not more.
Third of all, author believe that focusing on weather news could bring back their viewers and advertisers but there is no evidence to support that claim. It would be possible that these actions will not work out and the situation will not change in the future.
To sum up, statement as it stands now, is flawed and we are gonna need more evidence to have a better evaluation over the situation of that particular television station. we are gonna need more facts about viewer and advertisers to conclude better over this situation and without that facts we could not have better deduction over this condition.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 292 350
No. of Characters: 1364 1500
No. of Different Words: 133 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.134 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.671 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.419 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 89 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 68 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.773 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.39 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.718 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 246, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...lem for that television station based on people do not show any attention to the ...
^^
Line 1, column 301, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... show any attention to the programs and some of the advertisers are canceling their contrac...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 157, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s of this television station is based on the tv stations do not cover whether new...
^^
Line 3, column 32, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...before. Secondly, author believed that some of the advertisers canceled their contract bec...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 80, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_THE_FACT_THAT[1]
Message: This phrase is redundant. Use simply 'because'.
Suggestion: because
...the advertisers canceled their contract because of the fact that television station does not invest enou...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 190, Rule ID: BECAUSE_OF_THE_FACT_THAT[1]
Message: This phrase is redundant. Use simply 'because'.
Suggestion: because
... to cover weather news. But It could be because of the fact that they are having financial problem and t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: We
... of that particular television station. we are gonna need more facts about viewer ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, second, secondly, so, third, for example, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1389.0 2260.96107784 61% => OK
No of words: 292.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75684931507 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45062664081 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 204.123752495 65% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.455479452055 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 705.55239521 61% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.085960139 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.272727273 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5454545455 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229279716938 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907314316605 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.094233474371 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129985228198 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758243150048 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 49.0 98.500998004 50% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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